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Dr Rachel Rajadurai

NHS England
National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow 2022/23

Rachel Anjali Rajadurai is an Internal Medicine Trainee in the West Midlands Deanery. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Christian Medical College, Vellore in South India, graduating with distinction and moved to the UK in 2019 to pursue her further studies, completing her foundation programme in the Severn Deanery.

As an undergraduate she was awarded the prestigious Linnaeus-Palme scholarship which enabled her to study healthcare delivery models in the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and University of Florence, Italy as part of her course of study in healthcare management. She also led several community health programmes targeting health delivery disparities in rural communities in South India which cultivated her interests in health economic inequalities.

During her Foundation Programme, she was appointed an Innovation Fellow in the Severn Deanery and founded a trust-wide Junior Doctors Ethics Forum as a peer - led educational QI project to increase awareness around medical ethics and law - recently widening this forum to include foundation doctors in the West Midlands Deanery. She has presented this nationally recognised project at international QI (BMJ Health and Safety, AAME) and Education conferences (ASME and RCP Medicine Conference) and this forum has become a core component of the Deanery foundation teaching curriculum.

Rachel’s academic interest in healthcare management, particularly focusing on transformational leadership driving change led her to recently complete a Post Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership and Management at Keele University.

Outside of medicine, Rachel is a keen pianist and netball player and enjoys cooking (especially spicy Sri Lankan curries!)

Reason for applying for the scheme

Rachel is a firm believer that successful change management requires effective leadership at the helm – she is keen to explore various styles of leadership and management this year, particularly focused on collaborative team working and shared decision making. She believes that successful change is often driven by wider engagement with health service users to provide more patient-centered care and highlights the importance for multi-disciplinary collaboration.

Underpinning all of this is a determination to help develop policy focused on tackling health inequalities and disparities, brought into sharp focus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme provides young physician leaders a unique opportunity to integrate their passions and provides an excellent platform to learn under senior colleagues in the healthcare sector.

Rachel is excited to be joining the Medical Workforce Development team at NHS England – she is looking forward to working alongside clinical fellows and health care leaders to strengthen and empower the workforce, developing strategies to confront challenges in the wake of the pandemic and meet the needs of a diverse and skilled workforce of the modern day NHS.

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